Any suggestions for websites to find rentals for as short of a duration of 1 month that have more than just big family style vacation homes, but small little apartments for rent for a weekly or monthly basis?

Start on craigslist for private listings, also consider the option of house sitting for a month, which can be a sweet situation. Then there's Marriot's Residence Inns. http://www.marriott.com/residence-inn/travel.mi Whenever I stayed somewhere over five days, I called them first to wheel and deal.

yeah couchsurfer.com is actually really great. Forgot about Padmapper.com for sublets... Its cool it combines a bunch of sites like google maps and craigslist to show you on a map all the available apts that come up after you enter your search criteria. I guess there was a major debacle with them recently but I think they are still up and running.